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  2022-06-23

  Smiles on and masks off

  This is an Instagram post from physicianendocrinologist. This is about a changing mask policy at the endocrinologist office that posted this. It encourages people that are immunocompromised to wear masks though.
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  12/01/2020

  Brooke Dusk Oral History, 2020/12/01

  Brooke Dusk is a Senior Business Loan Officer at WESTconsin Credit Union. Her job is to help businesses in their time of need. That being said, her whole world has gotten flipped upside-down. She worked first hand with helping businesses apply for the Federal Grant known as the Paycheck Protection Plan, as well as other state grants and loans that businesses could take out. Brooke also has a science background and gives some amazing insight into the pandemic and what she foresees for the future.
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  2021-07-23

  Boundaries Between Home and Office

  It’s difficult to work from home and maintain a boundary between home and office. When your personal life is conflated with your professional life, it can be a struggle to keep your professional life from intruding on your personal life and vice versa. My friends have developed various rituals to establish a break between their working life and their home life. One friend gets into her car each morning, as she did formerly when she went into the office, and drives around the block. She then enters her house and goes directly to her desk and begins work. At the end of her workday, she reverses the process. I have a ritual to begin and end my workdays that is aligned with my yoga practice. I do a specific yoga sequence that is different from sequences I do at other times of the day as well as do meditation. This clears my mind and signals to me on a subconscious level that it’s time to work. At the end of the day, I do another unique yoga sequence and meditation to dispel the work energy and switch my mind and feelings towards personal matters. I’ve heard colleagues mention other “tricks” they use to differentiate their work life from their home life. Some change their clothes when they start work and then change them again at the end of the workday. Others take a walk outside before and after the workday, take all their work supplies and computers and put them away in a closet so that you don’t see your work while you’re focusing on your personal details, or take a shower to both begin and end the workday. The importance of these rituals can’t be overstated. When you’re working, whether at home or in an office, you should approach the situation in a professional manner. When you’re not working, for the sake of your mental health and happiness as well as the quality of your relationships with your friends and families, you need to leave the work behind and focus on personal matters.
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  2021-03-06

  Cost me my job

  I had a severe case of COVID-19 that I caught at my office that included pneumonia and a lower intestinal infection, along with a trip to the ER of my local hospital. At the ER I received breathing treatments and two strong antibiotics for the pneumonia and intestinal infection. This was in addition to severe fatigue, body aches and breathing issues. I was in bed for a little over two weeks and when I got back to the office, I was terminated for not being available during the illness.
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  2020-10-21

  Jewish Melbourne: NCJWA (Vic) received grant for Covid safe workplace

  "Glen Eira City Council awarded NCJWA Vic with a special “COVID-19 Community Action Grant”. This grant is for the purchase of sneeze guards, sanitiser stations and sanitisers - all part of our COVID-19 Safe Plan to return to the office, when restrictions will allow."
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  10/09/2020

  Anonymous Oral History, 2020/10/09

  This interview was conducted as a part of a COVID-19 archive project. In it she discusses her day to day life, how her life has changed since COVID hit the US, and how her home is coping with those changes. She discusses the effects that COVID has had on her family and community and how it has affected her son who has OCD. Lastly, she discusses her hopes for the future.
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  2020-09-20

  Dilbert Comics begin satirizing face masks

  Dilbert has been releasing comics throughout the pandemic with most of the characters wearing face masks. This comic is blatantly about them.
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  2020-08-17

  Death of Workplace Interaction

  This is an actual workplace posting in the communal office placed on every other computer workstation to remind employees to maintain social distancing.
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  2020-07-27

  Journal Entry - July 27, 2020

  This is a journal entry on how I'm feeling about having to return to the office full time.
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  2020-03-30

  Cultural Insights: Interviews in the Creative Sector #9 … Dalton Boszé, City of Evansville’s Department of Metropolitan Development

  In response to COVID-19, the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science launched the mini-series, "Cultural Insights: Interviews in the Creative Sector," to highlight colleagues and professionals working in the same or similar field of museum professionals.
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  2020-04-17

  Life In Isolation: The Coronavirus... Julian Adorney

  A virtual exhibition by the Evansville Museum of Art, History and Science
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  2020-04-17

  Life In Isolation: The Coronavirus... Emma Ewing

  A virtual exhibition by the Evansville Museum of Art, History and Science
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  2020-05-26

  Reopening and Social Distancing

  As the states begin reopening the question of if social distancing will be enough to flatten the curve is now on the forefront.
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  2020-06-14

  Preparing for the Public Again: Supplies Needed for Reopening Oklahoma Business in Phase 3 During COVID-19

  Starting June 1st, Oklahoma Governor Stitt's Phase 3 of Oklahoma's reopening began. The Richey Insurance Agency of Blanchard, Oklahoma has still not opened partly due to the company's employees being in the vulnerable categories. One of the other reasons is the difficulty in obtaining much needed cleaning supplies and the creation of new office protocols to maintain CDC suggested safety measures. Being a small independent business in a rural area, we are not given strict corporate or state regulations to enact. Instead, we are reliant on state and CDC information as well as our own ingenuity of how to best observe these suggestions. Some of the items that we've recently obtained include: plexiglass barriers for two desks, new easily cleanable office chairs, automated hand sanitizer stations, 70% isopropyl alcohol for spray bottles, bulk bottle of hand sanitizer, brightly colored tape for marking distancing locations on the floor, emergency masks, emergency gloves, and document exchange trays. All of these items are newly purchased and weren't necessary before COVID-19. The barriers will help maintain sanitary work spaces and create social distancing gaps. The chairs are especially important because they are replacing the previous cloth chairs. These new chairs' entire surface is either vinyl or metal, making it easier to clean after every customer. The social distancing rules will be a maximum of four customers in the office. This is approximately one third of its usual heavy customer points normally. All of these changes are based on a downward progression of COVID-19 cases to prevent our employees from unnecessary risk. Right now, three of the employees work from home and will continue until the office is officially open. Currently the new COVID-19 cases are on an upward trend in Oklahoma, with 225 new cases on Saturday June 12th, the single largest day since the beginning of the outbreak. With numbers like these, Phase 3 seems to be more of risk than we had planned. Much of the ramp up to open will be stalled until Oklahoma numbers show a significant decline. Personal story submitted for the #ruralvoices collection. Contributed by Clinton P. Roberts, curatorial intern for Arizona State University, HST 580.
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  2020-03-12

  School Office Coated with Q.T. Plus Virucidal Spray

  Q.T. Plus Virucidal Spray was distributed to school staff members before campus closures to help stop the spread of COVID-19. The spray, intended to kill the virus, left a long-lasting sticky residue that quickly deterred its usage among employees.
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  2020-05-30

  My Kitchen table has become my office!!!

  I am at my table for 7 hours working from home and as well as doing coursework since the pandemic started. It’s is a shift from being in a school building both professionally and academically.
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  2020-03-28

  Empty financial office during quarantine - Boston, MA

  Photograph of an abandoned desk at an unnamed financial office after two weeks of quarantine, with a vase of dead flowers and an ironically cheerful post-it note.
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  2020-03-13

  Pit River Tribe Decides to Close Offices

  “After careful consideration, the Pit River Tribal Chairperson has made the decision to close our site office to the public due to the increasing concerns related to the COVID-19 virus. This includes cancelling all in person meetings and not allowing anyone besides employees inside any of our buildings..” #IndigenousStories
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  2020-04-20

  Walled in

  I love this image because it represents an event that never would have occurred had we not all been home together. My husband was on a conference call with the doors to his office shut. While on the call, my son built a wall in front of the door. My husband literally had no idea it was happening. Shows that during all of this craziness we can still have some great laughs!
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  2020-04-28

  REL Arizona State University Ghost Town

  I work at the Sun Devil Card Office a the Memorial Union on the ASU campus. These are the signs that are on every door of the MU that has been closed. Usually, the Memorial Union is filled with people at the food court, dining hall, or just studying, but now there is nobody but the 10 employees that still clean/ roam the building. The virus has made this lively campus a ghost town. Students and faculty haven't been on the campus since spring break. This shows you just how serious this pandemic is. Usually, around this time, students would be studying for finals in the MU or the library, but now there is no one studying here.
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  2020-04-17

  Looking after office pot plants

  Staff have vacated offices in the Law School at the University of Melbourne but pot plants from all floors are being looked after in the lobby
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  2020-04-07

  My office

  How my learning and working environment changed due to the pandemic.
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  3/01/2020

  Conference Room Closed

  I had to run to my office today at Florida State University to xerox materials for a student who does not have access to a book. I passed by our conference room in the History Department and the cleaning crew has put caution tape up to remind us that it is closed for the moment.
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  2020-03-30

  Relocating to home office. 50 Lonsdale St. 30/03/20

  Staff are encouraged to work from home and are scrambling to get what they need to do that - for some unknown period of time. This woman has gathered her work needs and is sitting on her office chair waiting for transport to take it all home.